While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.